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The Situationist City Simon Sadler
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In reading and reviewing McKenzie Wark's The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, I couldn't help but think about the practice of art in the city of Detroit. This is because of how much your streets are an extension of capitalism. The situationists were are radical group of artists, theorists and activists, mainly in Paris in the '60s. The Situationist International movement is inspring it in dogmatic approach to reducing the passive nature of people in their everyday lives. Most importantly “there is no longer any Temple of the Sun”; there is no 'place of enlightenment' in the city where cultural activities can come together. The Situationist movement emerged as a critique of capitalism in 1957 and played a key role in the May 1968 uprising in Paris. It is an interesting idea to think about maps as both a tool to navigate the city as well as a tool to represent a particular experience in that city. An interesting thought that springs to mind about the experience of walking a city but using a map that doesn't 'match' the actual space, is Guy Debord and his writings upon the Situationists International. Situationists and Independents felt that indigenous living patterns were best nurtured through the “clustering” of the city. Psychogeography: Situationist Reconnaissance for Revolution: Part 1. 130606_Situationist City The Situationist City. For the Situationists, your city was there to be misused, to be detourned. As Rebecca Solnit has said, the great city of walkers and of revolution is Paris. Stanza artwork image The Situationist City. Situationists wanted to convert the interest of play with new at ideas the level.